Thursday, October 9, 2008

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  1. Burgher JonOctober 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM

    I'm with you, I commented to a friend just the other day that if you don't know enough about the candidates to make an informed choice 2 years in to the campaign you either don't follow it or don't process information well. EITHER WAY IT IS NOT NEWS THAT CNN SHOULD COVER WHEN YOU FINALLY DO MAKE UP YOUR MIND.

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  2. Bram ReichbaumOctober 9, 2008 at 2:13 PM

    Unfortunately, it is news ... so long as the two candidates are within the margin of undecideds from each other. So we're stuck with them.

    I think the only plausible explanation for being undecided at this point is a fixation with character and personality -- the notion that we should be rewarding the presidency to the more deserving human being, rather than employing the contractor that is proposing work that we feel is necessary. Besides which it's a judgment which is near impossible to pin definitively on persons we know in day to day life, let alone only through the media. To me, that kind of personality politics is marginally rational during the primaries, but thoroughly inexplicable at this stage. But to some, it's everything.

    That, and related to it, a sense of mistrust that either of the candidates may be lying to everybody about their intentions -- the Manchurian Candidate premise. I think after decades of work that align closely with their stated intentions, two years of campaigning and proposing specific programs, and a 24-hour multi-splendored media having unearthed everything there is to unearth (about 3 of the 4 of them) long ago, this hangup also falls variably into any of the categories outlined in the above chart.

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  3. Burgher JonOctober 9, 2008 at 3:30 PM

    My point wasn't that the opinions of undecided voters as a whole is not news, I watch more polls then is healthy. My point is that interviewing Sally Mae Ginger from Ohio is about as newsworthy as interviewing a tree.

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  4. Bram ReichbaumOctober 10, 2008 at 10:37 PM

    Well, I don't know about that. I will tell you I am no particular fan of this "racism porn" that is in vogue on the YouTube. No kidding. Oh, look at the freaks. Maybe I'm glad to have heard of it, but if I hear much more of it I'm going to think okay, ignorance is not that newsworthy or interesting.

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